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...scornfully and said, 'For the kind of coaching you're doing, it's only ten.' " Born in Johnson City, Tenn., Herman Hickman was an All-America guard at the University of Tennessee, a professional with the Brooklyn Dodgers football club and a pro wrestler before turning to coaching. He assisted at Wake Forest and North Carolina State, went to the U.S. Military Academy in 1943, built for his boss. Earl ("Red"') Blaik, the impenetrable Army line of the Blanchard-Davis era. Once asked for a statement of his philosophy, Ulcer Victim Hickman said: "When...
...From Oklahoma to New York, an eight-man team of Soviet wrestlers found only one American who could lick his weight in Russians. In the four-match tour, University of Iowa Alumnus Terry McCann, 23, U.S. 125½ lb. champ, was the only U.S. wrestler to win any bouts. He won three, drew...
...sprint. His sire, the Irish-bred Sullivan, seldom lasted more than a mile; his dam. Lady N Silk, also seemed mere horseflesh. With his build, Silky hardly looks like a thoroughbred at all. He has heavy jowls, the neck of a Percheron and the broad chest of a Turkish wrestler. He clops solidly up to the starting gate as if he were there only to pull it into position. Indeed, Silky is a horse out of Bunyan by Runyon...
Lamphere claimed to have been a professional wrestler billed as "the Indiana Cyclone," also a ship's carpenter and bosun's mate. He told Munchausen stories about having had his appendix removed aboard a tugboat in Ireland, of exploratory kidney surgery in Japan. A crosshatch of surgical scars showed how often he had been under the knife. Disarmingly...
...Karl Kludt at 130 both lack experience, but both are exceptionally hard workers who should benefit from Lee's coaching. Tom Oxnard at 137 placed in the New England Scholastics last year, but he too lacks experience. Bill Hurley, the lone heavyweight, is a former Tabor Academy wrestler...